Few days ago I got a several similar questions from my readers, so I thought the answers might be interesting to everyone.

The first question was related to the Spanish Patrones magazine - unfortunately, this magazine can not be bought in Serbia. A few issues of the magazine that I have were bought in Spain while I was staying there, or were brought back to me by my Spanish teachers (I've been learning Spanish for 3 years now) when they went back home for holidays. However, you can subscribe for the magazine via this website.

I find Patrones very interesting, it offers very interesting and youthful models, but I had problems with defining the right size - some patterns fitted well, while the others were too big. The sizes are not the same as the ones in Burda Style magazines, and the proportions differ, so I needed some time to get used to it.

The second question was related to the downloadable patterns. Here are some of the websites that I know of - if you know of any other site, it would be great if you could write them down in the comments.

Burda Style website offers a lot of patterns in PDF format. You need to print the file and join the papers together to get a pattern. Most of the patterns were published by the website itself, and lately there can be found patterns published by the Burda Style magazine. Also, you can find a lot of patterns made by the website's users (that are usually free of charge). You need to register to the website, which is also free of charge.

Also, Modern Sewing website offers a lot of downloadable patterns, and they're all free of charge.

Russian website Lekala offers numerous patterns, most of them being charged for. I was lucky to find the website during its promotion when all the patterns were free. Follow the site on a regular basis and you might catch another promotion.

Brazilian magazine Manequim offers some of its patterns in PDF file format. The patterns they offer for download free of charge changes periodically, so I advise you to download the pattern when you find it, or you might loose your chance for it. The whole collection of their patterns can be found here.The website is in Portuguese, but I think you'll manage it.

Colette Patterns website and blog. Sari, the author sells her vintage inspired patterns, but she offers some free patterns from time to time. I love all of her patterns!

This website offers a lot of patterns for children. I don't know whether all of them are free of charge.